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If Gannett needs to find money to save to keep going, there is plenty of opportunity at the courier post as 5:18 PM suggests. I could blog a list of names but Jim would probably delete the post or just not allow it to appear. Most of the "opportunity" is outside of the news room and everyone knows it.

Ok, Kool Aid drinking gannett employees — what do you have to say now? The scary thing is that you think your job is safe. I feel bad for you when reality finally sets in.I wish no one to lose their job but you need to take a hard look at reality and realize it's time to get your resume ready or take on another job to supplement your unemployment. You can make a limited amount a week without it being deducted from your unemployment check. I found with my additional job I can make the same or more than I'm making now. It's not a dream job but it will make ends meet. We ALL need to do this now before we are the next one to go.

We all know the VP's are in McLean this past week. The marching orders are more mgrs and dept heads will be bitting the dust. Publishers are to see which ones they can do without since many will be off 2 weeks this qtr.

So basically Poughkeepsie will lose positions to the Westchester hub, that seems unfair. Once again The Journal News of Westchester was shutout from Best of Gannett Awards, Gold Rings, etc ... Poughkeepsie picked up a Best of Gannett Award last week. Why does the great PoJo staff have to suffer to the hands of that Hell Hole in Westchester?

Gannett is demanding that Presidential Ring winners still with the company return their rings so that the gold can be melted, sold for $900/oz and the money returned to corporate to pay for the 2010 golf outing in New Zealand. Those no longer with the company have been asked to return the rings voluntarily or else their lifetime health benefits and consulting contracts will be terminated.

Towards the end of March, all 11 NBC affiliates had a portion of their engineering centralized to Jacksonville, FL. Where before there was often two broadcast engineers per shift at these stations (one doing air, and the other doing satellite and remote feeds), there is now only 1 or none. The one I'm familiar with, they lost five engineers (so multiply that by 11 stations).

Why don't you do some real reporting and put these layoffs in context? Do some comparisons with other companies. You could do media companies, auto companies and then pick 3-4 different industries yourself.

These numbers are meaningless without context. Kind of like taking a photo of someone with honthing to give the photo perspective.

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